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Former Starbreeze employees begin start-up for virtual reality games

Aug

6

2016

Former employees of Starbreeze have VR game development studio First Contact Entertainment set. The studio, which is now 20 men strong, includes developers from Robotki, Blizzard, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, SCEA and Spark.

The announcement of the new studio is done through an interview with founder Hess Barber at GamesIndustry.biz. The brand new studio also has a website . Barber said in the interview that his studio has as its main objective to “exploit the full potential of Fr. Concrete projects the man not yet revealed, but he says he wants to create original games that utilize ‘prominent’ licenses and focuses on all existing VR headsets. On the other hand he designates mobile Fri and ar well as interesting.

In the short term, will from 20 to 30 employees the studio to grow. The founder reports that he has a ‘significant’ amount of funding has made it in, but he does not reveal where it is coming from. Barber expects the studio releases its first game somewhat far into the future so that the installed base of virtual reality headsets is bigger and there is the possibility to make more sales.

The studio which Barber and others come, Starbreeze, works itself into several virtual-reality projects , including a private vr headset .